This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and … scales, for New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the OECD are examined. The implications of varying the poverty line are also …

redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … in each country, education contributes the most (about 30%) to multidimensional poverty. …In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …

At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and … labour markets. Moreover, the paper highlights the knowledge gaps with regard to the longer-term and gender-specific welfare …

The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries … higher effectiveness in reducing poverty. Unlike Western Europe, no trade-off between extensiveness and benefit generosity or …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …